13. 1. What is the author most likely to be?
a. a sailor
b. an ocean diver
c. a scientist
d. a fisherman
14. 2. What is the basis of his report?
a.site inspection
b.readings
c. fantasy
d.estimates
15. 3. Which of these is not contributory to sickened oceans?
a.reefs
b.trawlers
c.oil globs
d.plastic refuse
16. 4. The melting of icecaps in the polar
regions would cause oceans to sink.
a.Yes
b.No
c.Does not say
17. 5. Which of these would be
immediately affected if a film of
decayed matter would cover oceans?
a.evaporation
b.rainfall
c.irrigation
d.harvest
18. 6-7. Which two factors would drive people to
the highlands?
a.crowding
b.stench
c.disease
d.starvation
19. Informational text is defined as text with the
primary purpose of expressing information
about the arts, sciences, or social studies. This
text ranges from newspaper and magazine
articles to digital information to nonfiction
trade books to textbooks and reference
materials.
20. Literary nonfiction includes shorter texts, such as
“personal essays, speeches, opinion pieces, essays about art
or literature, biographies, memoirs, journalism, and
historical, scientific, technical, or economic accounts
(including digital sources) written for a broad audience.”
Autobiographies, biographies, other narrative nonfiction,
informational picture books, and informational poetry often
fit into this category.
21. Procedural texts provide step-by-step guidelines
that describe how to complete a task. They often
include a materials-needed section and graphics
that illustrate the process, as found in Doug
Stillinger’s The Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes. Jane
Drake and Ann Love’s Get Outside provides
readers with rules for games and directions for
making things like bird feeders, kites, and sundials
22. Expository texts inform, explain, and
expose. They utilize various text
structures, such as description, cause and
effect, comparison and contrast, problem
and solution, question and answer, and
temporal sequence.
23. Argument or persuasion texts provide evidence
with the intent of influencing the beliefs or
actions of the target audience. These texts
typically include claims, evidence, and
warrants to explain how the evidence is linked
to the claims. Writers of persuasion or
argument also make appeals—appeals to the
author’s credibility, to the audience’s needs, or
to reason and evidence.
31. What informational text beingreferredto:
1. It provides step-by-step guidelines that describe howto completea task.
2. It provides intent of influencing the beliefs or actions of the target audience.
3. It utilizesvarioustext structures, such as description, cause and effect,
comparison and contrast,problemand solution, question and answer, and
temporal sequence.
4. It includesshorter texts,suchas “personal essays, speeches, opinionpieces,
essays about art or literature,biographies.
5. The primarypurpose of expressing information about the arts, sciences, or
social studies